economy is stronger than you think. the problem isn't the u.s. economy it's the world economy. and i think the world economy is much weaker than you think. and don't take my word for it simply look at global indices, particularly emerging markets and most importantly china the number two economy in the world. china today closed on the loss of t -- lows the year. china is significantly underperforming. i don't believe the u.s. in this global economy the u.s. can effectively go it alone. that's what the stock market has done so far but i don't think it's sustainable. >> brian westberry what do you think, will china hold up our recovery? >> i don't think so. look back at 1989, japan back then was the second largest economy in the world. it collapsed. and then in the 1990s the u.s. economy boomed. >> first we had a very severe recession in the early '90s. >> it wasn't very severe but we had a recession. we boomed in the 1990s. we already had our recession. swrap has been down for 20 years. if that's all we get i'll take it. the bottom line is what's driving -- >> the point i want t